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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Rattlestick Announces Global Forms Theater Festival Lineup by American Theatre Editors

The festival will be led by a 100% immigrant artist team.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:53PM
Monday, March 6, 2023

Lortel Theatre Buys Building in Chelsea by American Theatre Editors

The move coincides with news that film studio A24 has purchased the historic Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:48PM
Friday, March 3, 2023

St. Louis Shakespeare Festival Announces Confluence New-Play Festival by American Theatre Editors

Three new works and a student reading will premiere at the St. Louis festival.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:46PM

Time and Space at the Colorado New Play Summit by American Theatre Editors

Even on a smaller scale, this year's Summit offered 4 playwrights the invaluable chance to write questions and stage the answers.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:03PM
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Hard of Hearing Shouldn’t Have to Be This Hard by American Theatre Editors

An actor and musician takes us behind the curtain and exposes some of the roadblocks to full inclusion.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:42PM

This Month in Theatre History by American Theatre Editors

March set the stage for political upheavals and peaceful exchanges between nations, a new dance company, a Chicana playwright, and the first female manager of a major U.S. theatre.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:00PM

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Receives Inaugural Pinnacle Commission by American Theatre Editors

The new $60,000 commission from South Coast Repertory is also supported by Playwrights Horizons.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:53PM
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The Subtext: The Time Kate Tarker Lost Her Paints by American Theatre Editors

The playwright of 'Montag' and 'THUNDERBODIES' talks about insisting on sustainability, identifying as a writer, and the art of listening.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:59PM

MacDowell Announces Spring and Summer Fellows by American Theatre Editors

15 theatre artists and many interdisciplinary artists have been awarded fellowships.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:00PM

Public Theater to Host 2023 BIPOC Critics Lab by American Theatre Editors

Applications for the cohort are now open and will be accepted through April 30.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:00PM

Will Davis Named Rattlestick Artistic Director by American Theatre Editors

When the busy director succeeds Daniella Topol in the position as of May 1, he will be the first transgender leader of a major non-LGBTQ-specific theatre.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 07:18AM
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Florida Studio Theatre Announces Partnership with The Haven by American Theatre Editors

The new program will expand performing arts opportunities for people with disabilities.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:07PM

Actors’ Equity Hiring Bias Report Shows Small Gains by American Theatre Editors

An analysis of data from 2021 shows a slight increase in jobs for BIPOC and non-binary union members, as well as wage gaps for older workers.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 10:48AM
Monday, February 27, 2023

Christina Anderson Wades Into the History of Swimming Pool Segregation by American Theatre Editors

In 'the ripple, the wave that carried me home,' next playing at Kansas City Rep and Yale Rep, this busy playwright pens another piece inspired by history.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:41PM

Combing: A Recollection of Working With Adrian Hall by American Theatre Editors

Somehow the late, great director could work on my play---and give it exactly what it needed---even while occupied with countless other thoughts and projects.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 12:03PM
Friday, February 24, 2023

New Ohio Theatre to Close This Summer by American Theatre Editors

After 30 years of artistry in the downtown independent theatre community, New Ohio will conclude operations at 154 Christopher Street on Aug. 31.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:44PM

‘200 Years’ That Brought American and Liberian Artists Together by American Theatre Editors

To mark the bicentennial of Liberia’s founding by formerly enslaved and free Black Americans, a troupe from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation joined with Liberians to make theatre about…

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:46AM
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Broadway Guilds Condemn Antisemitic ‘Parade’ Protesters  by American Theatre Editors

The first preview of the acclaimed musical, about the lynching of a falsely accused Jewish American, was picketed by neo-Nazis.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 03:49PM

Lanise Antoine Shelley Named Black Theatre Coalition AMEX Directing Fellow by American Theatre Editors

Shelley was formerly the artistic director of the House Theatre of Chicago.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 09:49AM
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Theatrical Mustang: How a.k. payne Holds Space by American Theatre Editors

This month Woodzick talks with the writer of 'Amani' about Black futures, expansive visions of gender, and how an archivist can be an activist.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:38PM
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Benjamin Hanna Named Indiana Rep Artistic Director by American Theatre Editors

Currently an associate artistic director at the theatre, he will succeed Janet Allen as of July 1.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 01:50PM

Eugene Lee’s Sets Brought Artists and Audiences Together by American Theatre Editors

The designer's friend, colleague, and mentee recalls him as a tirelessly busy, no-fuss genius who cherished real materials and was always ready with a brilliant drawing or model.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 11:39AM
Monday, February 20, 2023

Film Noir as a Key to Adrienne Kennedy’s Style by American Theatre Editors

The director of the world premiere of 'Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side' shares what unlocked this haunting play for him and the creative team.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:20PM

The Rising Tide of ‘An Ocean in My Bones’ by American Theatre Editors

Earlier this month, Terrence Spivey's play about the last slave ship, Clotilda, had its premiere in the Alabama community its survivors built.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:39PM

Barter Theatre’s Plan to Create a Black Appalachian Canon by American Theatre Editors

How one historically white theatre company in Virginia has invested in reaching new audiences, and fostering writers, of color.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 08:23AM
Friday, February 17, 2023

Shange, Henderson, A.R.T./NY to Receive Special Category Lortel Awards by American Theatre Editors

Stephen McKinley Henderson will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, Ntozake Shange will be posthumously inducted onto the Playwright's Sidewalk, and A.R.T./New York will be recognized for …

SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:18PM

6 Theatre Workers You Should Know by American Theatre Editors

From an animatronics professor in North Carolina to a music director in Massachusetts, this installment features six theatre workers shaping arts education.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:36PM
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Carlyle Brown, Milcha Sanchez-Scott Receive Legacy Playwrights Awards by American Theatre Editors

Both artists will use the award, intended to highlight veteran artists no longer in the limelight, to continue writing.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:43PM

Ryan J. Haddad, Star of His Own Life by American Theatre Editors

His latest autobiographical comedy at the Public, ‘Dark Disabled Stories,’ is being designed with access in mind, even as it gets down and dirty about the ways society views and treats d…

SOURCE: American Theatre at 02:37PM
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Why the Fight Over Drag Is a Struggle for Us All by American Theatre Editors

Proposed drag bans aren't really about drag but about transphobia and homophobia. And they aren't just threatening marginalized people and their livelihoods---they're also attacking an art a…

SOURCE: American Theatre at 05:40PM

ENOUGH! Seeks Short Anti-Gun Violence Plays From Teens by American Theatre Editors

Lauren Gunderson, David Henry Hwang, and others will serve as judges for the playwriting contest.

SOURCE: American Theatre at 04:06PM

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